Fernando Cutz, the director for South America of Donald Trump’s National Security Council, told journalists that no decision has yet been taken on new sanctions against Venezuela, so he was not prepared to discuss specific actions or the names of individuals or entities that might be targeted. Cutz was answering questions from the media in a telephone briefing after President Trump threatened to take “strong and swift economic action” if the Venezuelan government continues with elections for a Constituent Assembly on July 30.

In her latest episode, Martin condemns the coverage of right-wing protesters as “romantic” and insists “there certainly is a right to protest” in Venezuela.

As part of the program, Martin spent three weeks in Caracas and attended both opposition and Chavista demonstrations.

In one opposition demonstration, protesters maneuvered three trucks to block a highway, burnt tires and hurled rocks at security forces. The protesters told her to “only film repression against them, not their actions,” she says.

The resolution calls for rejecting any policy that violates the principles of international law, the UN Charter, or that of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament

HAVANA.–The Executive Board of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) recently approved a resolution rejecting the U.S. President’s statements announcing plans to reinforce the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed on Cuba by this country.

The document reiterates that the change in U.S. policy toward Cuba represents a setback in the process undertaken by the previous administration to move toward normalization of relations between the two countries.

Also emphasized was that the blockade has been repeatedly denounced by Parlatino bodies, in particular by the 25th and 31st sessions of its Assembly, as well as in 25 resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly since 1992, and by international public opinion.

Parlatino considers the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States to be the greatest violation of the Cuban people’s human rights and the principal obstacle to the island’s development.

(P L) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today defended his country”s right to grant political asylum to U.S. civil rights fighters, and made it clear that those people will not be returned to the United States.

‘In tune with the national legislation and international law, and Latin America’s tradition, Cuba has granted political asylum or refuge to civil rights fighters from the United States,’ Rodriguez noted at a press conference in this capital today.

The head of Cuban diplomacy stressed that none of those refugees will be handed over to U.S. authorities.

‘Certainly, those people will not be returned to the United States, which lacks legal, political and moral foundations to demand their return,’ he stressed.

Havana, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) The National Bureau of Statistics and Information (ONEI) has reported today that about 284,565 Americans visited Cuba until late May this year, compared with an equal figure in 2016.

Trump vowed to work as a “mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator” to help create “peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”

U.S. President Donald Trump’s met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the White House Wednesday and mouthed with conviction his ability to broker a permanent peace pact to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stressing that it would be the “toughest deal.”

Trump vowed to work as a “mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator” to help bring “peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”

“There’s such hatred, but hopefully there won’t be such hatred for very long,” Trump said after meeting with Abbas in the Roosevelt Room.

The Palestinian leader expressed his support for a two-state solution to the conflict — which is not supported by the majority of Palestinians — as well as the longheld Palestinian desire for a capital in East Jerusalem. He also welcomed Trump as a mediator in the peace negotiations.

“I believe that we are capable under your leadership and your courageous stewardship and your wisdom, as well as your great negotiating ability … we believe that we can be partners, true partners, to you to bring about a historic peace treaty,” said Abbas.

Trump also hinted at having the Oslo Accords, which Abbas signed onto as the Palestinian negotiator in 1993, as a blueprint for the so-called “final and most important peace agreement.

“Our approach to North Korea is to have them change their posture towards any future talks,” Tillerson said in an interview with NPR aired Friday. “We do not seek a collapse of the regime. We do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula. We seek a denuclearized Korean peninsula.”

“North Korea has to decide they’re ready to talk to us about the right agenda — and the right agenda is not simply stopping where they are for a few more months or a few more years and then resuming things. That’s been the agenda for the last 20 years,” Tillerson said.